> Java feels like I have to develop a whole program just to get my program to run. Is this about the "pom.xml" files? In the simplest case, they just contain t

> Java feels like I have to develop a whole program just to get my program to run. Is this about the "pom.xml" files? In the simplest case, they just contain the name and version of the program, the version of Java you want to use, and the names and versions of the libraries you want to use. You would need to specify this somewhere in any language. And yes, sometimes it gets more complicated, if people want to do more complicated things. It's either this, or having a dialog somewhere in IDE that does the same. People often overcomplicate things, but it usually doesn't need to be so. As an example of a simple Java code, see this: https://gitlab.com/kittenlord/image https://gitlab.com/kittenlord/image